Organisation and Form of Metrie Documentation on Patrimonium 
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An interesting collaboration has developed with the University of Ghent’s Department of Geography; thanks to an excellent follow 
up by the two institutions and to a preceding definition of precise criteria, students preparing an masters thesis can now exploit the 
Departments metric documentation while producing a document of which the Department also benefits. For instance, in 2000 a 
project of 3 D visualisation was developed on the basis of a survey the Department realised some years before. The project meant to 
test a commercial programme (3D STUDIO VIZ R3) on a 12 lh century monument (the Saint-Victor church in Fleurus). An other 
project consisted of locating the ruined walls of the choir and transept in the gothic abbey in Aulne on ortho image plans with 
VIRTUO ZO programs Fig 2. 
Legende : h (TAW) = H (plan) + 106,15 m 
X (m) = de afstand op de x-as 
evenwijdig met de dwarsdoorsnede 
van het transept 
Dit plan is het resultaat van restitutie 
van de stereoparen 
nrs 39. 39 2 en 39 3 
Situatieplan ; 
ft T 
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Abbaye d’Aulne 
Orthofotoplan IX 
Fig.2 Abbey in Aulne : Characteristic points on metric-photo and orthophotos 
5. CONCLUSIONS 
The Department is still using close range photogrammetry while using the means made available by digital photogrammetry. The 
most important is to meet, as efficiently as possible, the requirements of the demand while using human potential to its best.